Vertical electrical sounding (VES) geophysical data collected in the Scott M. Matheson Wetlands Preserve Near Moab, Utah

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Vertical electrical soundings (VES) are used to develop depth-resolved models of aquifer resistivity by making electrical potential measurements at increasingly larger electrode spacing, with the array centered around a common point. Variations in modeled electrical resistivity with depth can be used to infer groundwater salinity and preferential fresh groundwater flow zones. Each of the 4 VES measurement integrates approximately 11 individual electrical soundings with 4 electrodes driven into the soil in a linear Wenner array with electrode spacings ranging from 1 to 40 m. Data were collected manually with a SuperSting electrical resistivity meter (AGI - Advanced Geosciences, Inc) and recorded by hand in a field book.

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Name Format Description Link
55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/F75M63ZF
55 The metadata original format https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.5bf46b60e4b045bfcae1e9a4.xml

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  • environment
  • moab
  • utah
  • groundwater
  • geophysics
  • surface-water
  • scott-m-matheson-wetlands-preserve
  • electromagnetic-surveying
  • geoscientificinformation
  • usgs-5bf46b60e4b045bfcae1e9a4
  • inlandwaters
  • hydrogeology
  • hydrology

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